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ADDRESSES 



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EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN, 



The Divinity Hall, which is now ready for the roof, stands on the 
corner of College and Elm streets, opposite the northwest corner of the 
Public Square, and between the buildings of the Academical Department, 
with the Library, Art Building, etc., and the Sheffield Scientific School. 

Ground Floor.— The principal entrance, E, which connects with the 
main hall or corridor, H, ten feet wide, is on Elm street, and fronts the 
grounds and buildings of the Academical Department of Yale College. 
There is also another entrance, on College street, C, on the right of which is 
the Janitor's room, I, and near this a lift, D, which connects with all the 
stories above. Beyond this to the right, and on a level with the street, is a 
passage-way, P, for vehicles into the yard in the rear. The large rooms on 
this floor, each about 30 feet square and 17 feet high, are for public pur- 
poses, viz : a Reference-Library and Reading Room, A, and three Lecture 
Rooms, L, L, L. The access to the rooms above is by a flight of stairs, S, 
near each extremity of the corridor. 

Upper Moors. — In the second, third and fourth stories, each room used 
for a study, S, is provided with a bed-room, B, lighted by a window and 
having a closet. A few of the rooms have two bed-rooms attached to them, 
but in general, provision is made for each student, at this advanced stage of 
his education, to room alone. 

Healing, Bath Booms, etc. — The building is expected to be warmed 
throughout by steam and lighted by gas. Bath rooms, W, and other 
conveniences are placed in each of the upper stories. 

The original plan contemplates also a Chapel on Elm street, nearly on a 
line with the front of the building, and a wing at the northern extremity of 
the edifice, having accommodations for boarding. 



ADDRESSES. 



lis" response to an invitation from the Theological Fac- 
ulty of Yale College, a large nnmber of the Alnmni of 
the Divinity School and other ministers of the gospel in 
Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, together 
with a number of the leading benefactors of the Semi- 
nary, the professors and students of the several depart- 
ments of the University, and friends of the Divinity 
School in ]STew Haven and the vicinity, assembled in the 
Center Church on Wednesday, Sept. 22d, at 2J o'clock, 
to listen to brief addresses introductory to the laying of 
the corner-stone of the new Theological Hall. 

President Woolsey, who presided, introduced the 
services by reading the familiar hymn composed by 
the late President I) wight, with whom the thought of a 
distinct Department of Sacred Learning in Yale College 
originated, 

I love thy kingdom, Lord, 

which was sung by the whole congregation, after which 
Rev. Wm. I. Budington, D. D., of Brooklyn, K Y., a 
graduate of the Seminary in the Class of 1838, led the 
assembly in prayer. 

Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., as the Senior Professor 
in the Seminary, to whom the introduction of the several 
speakers to the President and the audience had been as- 
signed, then spoke as follows : 

Mr. President: 

Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you on the 
work this day inaugurated. I congratulate you that the 
work of building a permanent home for the Theological 
Department of our venerable institution is at last begun 



6 Dr. Bacon' 's Address. 

under your presidency. To-day, - surrounded by our 
prayers, you lay the corner-stone of an edifice to stand 
for ages, consecrated to the highest and holiest studies 
and to preparation for the highest and holiest work. 
You and I, — with our common memory of half a hundred 
years since, in our youthful dreams, we began to hope 
great things for the future of our Alma Mater, — may re- 
joice together and give thanks to God that we have seen 
this day. 

In your behalf, and in behalf of our associates in the 
Corporation and in the Faculty of Theology, I offer our 
salutation to those Benefactors of the Theological De- 
partment who honor us with their presence. Friends, 
true and generous, by whose munificence we have been 
enabled or encouraged to undertake the work of build- 
ing, we bid you welcome to this concourse. Our joy 
and hope to-day are yours by a higher title than that of 
the common sympathy of all good men in whatever is 
attempted for the glory of God and the welfare of man- 
kind. You have a special proprietorship in the edifice 
which is to be the product and the memorial of your 
Christian liberality. We rejoice with you in the grow- 
ing evidence that the benefactions which established the 
Theological Department of Yale College, and which 
have sustained it in its weakness, have not been in vain. 
We gratefully recognize your "freehold of rejoicing" in 
the prospect that this school of sacred learning, so hon- 
ored heretofore in the contributions it has made to the 
illustration and defense of evangelical doctrine and in 
the character of its alumni, is still to be conspicuous 
among the schools of academic culture, of physical sci- 
ence and of professional lore, that are clustered in our 
constellation here, and not less conspicuous among those 
"schools of the prophets" which are to supply the 
churches of our country with a well-trained ministry for 
the pastoral office and for the work of preaching the 
gospel to every creature. 

We greet, with affectionate welcome, the Alumni of 
the Department who are so numerously present, and of 



Dr. Bacon's Address. 7 

whom so many have been instructed by those eminent 
men our predecessors in the Faculty of Theology. 
Brethren, we thank you for this evidence of your con- 
tinued interest in the institution. You know how much 
it needs the permanent habitation, ampler and worthier 
than its old abode, which, with the aid of many benefac- 
tors, we are now providing for it. As you look on the 
massive foundations, and partake in the ceremonial of 
laying the corner-stone, the venerable memory of your 
old teachers grows vivid in your thoughts. The pile 
which we are building will have in your eyes, and in 
ours, a monumental dignity. The names inseparably 
associated with all the early history of the Department — 
tire memorable names of Taylor, Gibbs, Goodrich, and of 
him* who remains the sole survivor of that company — 
need not stand out upon those walls in sculptured stone, 
for the building itself shall be a remembrancer of them to 
coming ages. 

With our own alumni, other ministers of Christ are 
present, in numbers beyond our expectation, from all 
parts of this ancient commonwealth and from other 
States. We salute them also with equal gratulation. 
Brethren, we thank you for the encouragement you give 
us by your presence. Pastors of the Connecticut 
Churches, I need not say that, wherever you may have 
been trained in sacred studies, you are equally welcome 
here. You and the churches of your care have a pecu- 
liar interest in this great institution, but most of all in its 
Theological Department. As the college was founded by 
your predecessors in their care for the Churches and for 
the interests of sound learning in the Commonwealth, so, 
most reasonably, your relation to it is guarded by its 
charter and incorporated into the constitution of the 
State. While the churches of Connecticut, with their 
pastors, are true to Christ, this must remain a Christian 
university; and its Theological Department, to which 

* Rev. Eleazar T. Fitch, D. D., Professor Emeritus, now on the eve of 
his 80th year, 



8 Dr. Bacort s Address. 

your relation is nearest, must represent the evangelical 
theology of New England. 

Yet we remember that as our university, founded 
when all the churches in the little colony of Connecticut 
were Congregational, is Christian in its constitution and 
influence without being sectarian in its spirit, so its Theo- 
logical Department has always valued Christian truth 
more than any form of ecclesiastical polity — the emanci- 
pating and sanctifying word of God more than the hu- 
man formulas of discipline and of doctrine which divide 
one body of evangelical believers from another. There- 
fore we greet with hearty welcome the Ministers of other 
c7iurc7ies, and all our Christian friends of whatever 
name, whose presence adds to the dignity of this assem- 
bly. Brethren, we recognize your interest in the true 
prosperity of this school for the training of men to preach 
the gospel. Preachers and teachers of Grod' s word will 
be trained here for the service of your churches as well as 
of ours. So it has been in former years ; and we cheerfully 
accept the certainty that so it will be in years to come. 
Such are the relations among the various bodies of evan- 
gelical Protestants, such is their growing consciousness 
of common interests and duties as well as of a common 
salvation, and such is the growing intimacy of friendly 
intercourse among their ministers, that you and we must 
needs rejoice together in whatever contributes to the wel- 
fare and progress of that Catholic Church of Christ, which 
includes all His believing and loving followers. We ac- 
cept the testimony which your presence gives us, that 
you regard this school of theological study and learning 
not as existing for interests which are distinctively ours, 
and in some sort adverse to yours, but rather as conse- 
crated to broader and sublimer interests, which over- 
shadow the traditional differences of dogma or polity, 
and which are yours as well as ours. 

JFellow citizens, each and all, friends, neighbors and 
strangers, welcome ! We thank you for every expres- 
sion of your fellowship with us in the work which we this 
day inaugurate. ' ' Except the Lord build the house, they 



Historical Sketch of the School. 9 

labor in vain that build it ;" but we trust that by His 
favor our work shall prosper. We are laying the foun- 
dations of an edifice which, if we are enabled to complete 
it according to our hopes, will be among the chief orna- 
ments of this beautiful city ; and we build in the devout 
expectation that when our school for the training of 
Christian ministers shall inhabit its new and more com- 
modious home, its influence will be, as heretofore, a salu- 
tary influence, not only in the University, but in the 
churches of New Haven, and of the region round about — 
an influence ever ready and effective in every Christian 
work. Our prayer is — and we ask you to pray with us 
— that the walls of our building may be ' ' holiness to the 
Lord," continually hallowed by His living Spirit, as well 
as by the study of His recorded revelation. We ask for 
your friendly interest in our work. We ask for 
your generous help in our need. Thus, by the favor of 
God on us and our successors, this center of sacred 
studies, already rich in gracious memories, shall become 
more and more a fountain of illumination for the conti- 
nent and for the world. 



Dr. Bacon then announced that before the addresses, a 
brief account of the oeigin" and histoey of the Semi- 
naey would be read by Prof. George E. Day, who pro- 
ceeded to make the following statement : 

The Divinity School of Yale College, as a separate 
branch of the University, went into operation in the year 
1822— forty-seven years ago. The Corporation, in giving to 
it an existence distinct from the Academical Department, 
grounded their action on the fact well known in the his- 
tory of the University, that " one of the principal objects 
(as they express it) of the pious founders of the college 
was the education of pious young men for the work of 
the ministry." The first act on record of the ten found- 
ers who met at Branford in the year 1700 to establish the 
college, reads as follows: — "Whereas, it was the glori- 
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10 Historical Sketch of the School. 

ons public design of our now blessed fathers, on their 
removal from Europe into these parts of America, both 
to plant, and under the divine blessing, to propagate in 
the wilderness, the blessed Reformed Protestant religion 
in the purity of its order and worship, not only to their 
posterity but also to the barbarous natives ; we, their 
unworthy posterity, lamenting our past neglect of this 
grand errand, and sensible of our great obligations better 
to prosecute the same, and desirous in our generation to 
be serviceable thereunto — whereunto the liberal and re- 
ligious education of suitable youth is, under the blessing 
of God, a chief and most profitable expedient — therefore 
do in duty to God and the weal of our country, under- 
take in the aforesaid design." Accordingly, the system 
of study pursued, it has been said by high authority, 
rested upon logic and theology, and presupposed that 
the students would choose the clerical profession rather 
than the offices of civil life. Many of the branches of 
study pursued would now be included in the curricu- 
lum of a theological seminary. The early regulations 
direct that ' ' the Rector shall take effectual care that the 
students be weekly called memoriter to recite the Assem- 
bly' s Catechism in Latin, and Ames' theological theses ; 
that in the first year after admission, on the first four 
days of the week, all students shall be exercised in the 
Greek and Hebrew tongues only ; that the students shall, 
after they have done reciting rhetoric and ethics on Fri- 
days, recite Wollebius' Theology, and on Saturday 
morning they shall recite Ames' theological theses in his 
Medulla, and on Saturday evening, the Assembly's 
Shorter Catechism, in Latin." 

In accordance with what this would indicate, the first 
professorship ever established in Yale College, as any 
one may see in the Triennial Catalogue, was the profes- 
sorship of Divinity, and under the guidance of those 
who, from 1775, successively filled this chair — Rev. 
Dr. JSTapthali Daggett, Rev. Dr. Wales and President 
Dwight — a large number of the Alumni were conducted 
through the course of theological study regarded at that 



Historical Sketch of the School. 11 

time as an adequate preparation for the work of the 
Christian ministry. * 

Nothing, therefore, was more than natural than, when 
the growing demands of the times and the establishment 
of independent theological seminaries in other places re- 
quired the study of theology in this institution, unless it 
was to be practically abandoned, to be put upon a 
broader basis ; and when in 1822, fifteen young men, 
Alumni of the college, presented to the Corporation a 
petition, strongly supported by Rev. Dr. Fitch, then 
Professor of Divinity, for enlarged provision for theo- 
logical instruction ; and when still further, a number 
of gentlemen came forward with a subscription of 
$20,000 to found a professorship of Didactic Theology, f 
that the Corporation should feel that the time had come 
to give to the study of theology an advanced place in the 
University, and that the instruction in theology (which 
for more than a century had been given by the President 
or Professor of Divinity) should be committed to a dis- 
tinct theological faculty. 

Of its first members — Rev. Dr. Taylor, Prof. Josiah 
W. Gribbs and Rev. Dr. Fitch — the last alone survives, 

* The Kev. Dr. Fitch, froin the time of his induction into the professorship 
of Divinity in 1817, lectured once or twice a week to such theological stu- 
dents as chose to remain in New Haven. Of these, may be mentioned 
Joseph D. Wickham, Edward Bull, (for many years pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church in Lebanon, Conn.,) William C. Fowler, (late Professor in Am- 
herst College,) Edward Hitchcock, (afterwards President of Amherst College,) 
Lyman Coleman, (now Professor in Lafayette College,) Samuel B. Ingersoll, 
David N. Lord, and Horace Hooker. 

f The following are the names of the donors of this professorship, in the 
order in which they stand in the paper on record : Jeremiah Day, $700 ; 

B. Silliman, $150 ; James L. Kingsley, $500 ; Eleazar T. Fitch, $1,666.66 ; 
Chauncey A. Goodrich, $500 ; Timothy Dwight, $5,000 ; Wm. Leffmgwell, 
$2,000 ; Anna Townsend, $500 ; Abraham Bradley, Jr., and James Bradley, 
real estate ; Stephen Twining, $250 ; Hull and Townsend, $500 ; Dyer White, 
$300 ; S. Converse, $500 ; Wm. H. Eliot, $300 ; John H. Coley, $100 ; Jehiel 
Forbes, $50 ; Elihu Sanford, $50 ; Titus Street, $1,000 ; Stephen Yan Kens- 
selaer, $500. For the remaining sum of $5,000, Professors Goodrich and 
Fitch bound themselves to be responsible. This sum was contributed shortly 
after by Nehemiah Hubbard, $1,000 ; Henry L. Ellsworth, $1,000 ; Wm. W. 
Ellsworth, $800 ; Thomas S. Williams, $500 ; David Daggett, $500 ; Wm. 

C. Woodbridge, $100, and several donors of smaller sums. 



12 Historical Sketch of the Scliool. 

and it is hoped may be present at the laying of the 
corner-stone to-day. The two former, Dr. Taylor and 
Prof. Gibbs, after a faithful service, respectively of 
thirty-six and thirty-seven years, which gave to the Sem- 
inary a name and a place among the schools of sacred 
learning which will never be forgotten, passed away, 
the one in 1858, the other in 1861. Prof. Chauncey A. 
Goodrich, who was subsequently a colleague with them, 
and to whom the Seminary is largely indebted for its 
permanent foundation, was taken from us the year before 
the death of Prof. Gibbs. 

But though the pillars had fallen, — the honored in- 
structors whose names are still fragrant among us, and 
who did so much to unite the churches of this city in a 
warm and steady interest in the Seminary, — yet by the 
favor of Providence a succession of new friends was 
raised up, by whose benefactions, combined with the ex- 
ertions of the Alumni of the school, the endowments for 
instruction and in aid of students have largely in- 
creased. The number of permanent instructors, also, 
has been enlarged, as the progress of theological science 
required, and to-day there is no Seminary in the coun- 
try more fully manned than this institution. 

The accommodations originally provided for the Di- 
vinity School were exceedingly limited. The two in- 
structors, Dr. Taylor and Prof. Gibbs, with the students, 
occupied rooms over the present College Chapel, where 
also the lectures and recitations were held. In the year 
1835-6, the edifice now known as Divinity College was 
erected for the use of the Theological Department, with 
the condition that whenever it should be needed for the 
use of the Academical Department, it should be given 
up at a fair valuation. 

That necessity having manifestly arrived, in conse- 
quence of the large increase of students in the Academi- 
cal Department, arrangements were made in 1866 to solicit 
funds for the erection of a new and more commodious 
Divinity Hall, with suitable rooms for lectures and recita- 
tions, a reference -library, and for students. Our friends 



Historical Sketch of the School. 13 

in various places, in a spirit of Christian liberality which 
we shall always gratefully remember, responded to our 
application, and in July last the subscriptions for the new 
building had reached such a point that, under the urgent 
necessity of the case, it was decided to go forward and 
put up the walls and roof with the sums already sub- 
scribed, trusting to the liberality of our friends in New 
Haven and elsewhere to furnish us with the means of 
finishing the interior and making the edifice ready for 
occupancy at the beginning of the next Seminary term, 
in September, 1870. The total estimated cost of the ma- 
sons' and carpenters' work, including materials, is not 
far from $125,000. Of this sum, $40,000 remains to be 
obtained, and we have great confidence that the friends 
of the Seminary will not allow the work to stop. The 
completion of the building is absolutely essential to the 
prosperity, and even the very operation of the institu- 
tion. 

To relate what this Seminary has accomplished in the 
forty-seven years of its existence would quite exceed the 
bounds of this occasion. It will be enough to say, that 
the number of students who have been or are now 
connected with the school is 820 ; and that their work, 
in laboring at home and abroad to build up the kingdom 
of Christ, is the best history of the institution. What 
this school has done for Home Missions at the West, and 
especially what it has done for the State of Illinois, and 
what for Foreign Missions, especially for the great em- 
pire of China, will be better stated by two of the Alumni 
of the institution, who participated in these movements, 
and are with us to-day. 

It is only necessary to add that the erection of the 
building, the corner stone of which is be laid to-day, 
is but a part of a comprehensive plan to give to the 
Theological Department such prominence in the cluster 
of institutions which constitute Yale College, as both to 
secure the main design for which the College was 
founded — the training of a learned and pious ministry 
—and to enable it to exert a strong and steady religious 



14 Letter of Rev. Henry Ward BeecJier. 

influence upon the numerous body of young men who 
resort to New Haven for education. For the additional 
endowments which are needed the Seminary relies upon 
the benefactions and bequests of those who comprehend 
the magnitude of the work to be done in an institution 
like Yale College, and the importance of doing it thor- 
oughly and well.* 

Dr. Bacon said: — We had confidently expected the 
presence and the voice of Henry Ward Beecher, but 
only two or three hours ago we received a letter from 
him, which I will read, and which is the best substitute 
we can give for his presence. It will explain the reason 
of his absence. He told us he would come unless pre- 
vented by his hay fever, a periodical disease coming on 
every summer, for which Dr. Holmes told me there was 
no cure but gravel, taken six feet deep. The letter 
which was read is as follows : 

Peekskill, N. Y., September 20, 1869. 

Prof. George E. Day — Dear Sir : — Although I am 
relieved of the more vexatious symptoms of my sum- 
mer complaint, I am liable, for a time, to attacks of 
asthma, and the dust and cinders of car travel are pecu- 
liarly adapted to excite the paroxysms. I am, therefore, 
obliged, against my will and feelings, to stay away from 
the services and the occasion which deeply interests me. 
New Haven is the home of my ancestors. Yale College 
is the first college that I ever heard of in my childhood. 
The Theological School of New Haven was in its glory 
when I began to be old enough to think, and I was 
brought up to suppose that Drs. Taylor and Fitch were 
the ablest men in the world. 

* A " statement of the recent donations to Yale Tlieological Seminary " for 
the building fund, the scholarship fund, and the professorship and general 
fund of the School, has been printed, and will be sent, on application to 
any member of the Theological Faculty. The late generous donations made 
to Yale College (the Academical Department) do not affect, except indirect- 
ly, the Theological Department, the expenses of which are met entirely from 
its own endowments. 



Letter of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 15 

While all other Seminaries are marching, I should be 
sorry that Yale should halt, and if any Department in 
the University is to recede, the last thing which we could 
expect of Connecticut would be that its theology was to 
suffer neglect. With new accommodations, may a new 
spirit come to the school of the Prophets. That young 
men are to such an extent averting their faces from the 
Christian ministry, gives an unfavorable impression of 
their manliness. An ambition of wealth, of political 
power, of literary eminence may not be disreputable, 
but to go past, the noblest profession of all, fearing its 
trials, — to take up with secular pursuits at a time like 
this, when the continent, from ocean to ocean, asks reli- 
gious instruction, indicates a state of mind much to be 
deplored. Even if preaching to-day was accompanied 
with as many privations as it was of old, it would still 
be the noblest profession of all. ~No man that ever 
entered heart and soul upon the work of the Christian 
ministry but was thankful all his life long for the choice. 
After the vicissitudes of thirty years, the earliest ten in 
straits of health and of means, and all of them labori- 
ous ; with a clear understanding of the honors, emolu- 
ments and pleasures of other liberal professions, I would 
to-day, if I were to begin life again, choose eagerly, 
irresistibly, the Christian ministry. It has its burdens — 
all professions have ; it has its limitations, but not more 
than other pursuits. It is the freest, the most engaging, 
the most satisfactory of any calling, to those who are of 
the right spirit for it. The commerce of the mind is with 
the noblest themes ; the business of its life is the most 
benevolent. It keeps a man' s heart related to his fellows 
in the most generous moods. Better than all, the crystal 
vault above one' s head is not darkened by such passions 
as too often send their fuliginous influence into other 
avocations, and one has a fruition of the coming joys, 
even while a pilgrim and a stranger. At the present 
day, the work of the ministry demands the service of 
every good mental endowment. In teaching, in pastoral 
work, in ten thousand humble fields, men of good sense 



16 Letter of Ren. Henry Ward Beeclier. 

and deep devotedness will find abundant acceptance 
although they are not children of genius. But in deal- 
ing with the phrases of philosophic thought, in bringing 
religion, in its authority and beauty, above the level of 
jurisprudence, of literature, and of civic affairs, that to 
it "every knee may bow and every tongue confess," is a 
work in which men of the noblest parts, fired with the 
truest genius, may find the noblest opportunities for the 
beneficent exertion of their whole nature. 

That which approaches nearest to God is the most nat- 
ural ; the ministry of Jesus Christ is the most intensely 
natural of all pursuits. And I fervently hope that many 
a young man who shall be gathered in the goodly com- 
pany, to see the laying of the corner stone of the Theo- 
logical building, will be found, when it shall be com- 
pleted, ready and anxious to occupy its rooms and to 
compose its classes. 

I do not forget that near you, side by side, reposes the 
dust of two ministers of Christ, second to none that Con- 
necticut has reared. * Great was their love for God and for 
each other. If interest for the work could give life again,, 
to their dust, surely they would come forth among you 
to-day, as venerable and more benign than the spirit of 
Samuel of old. They would come with trembling hands 
outspread to beseech blessings on this School. But they 
are with you invisible, and in the full sympathies of 
sainted spirits they bear to you the benedictions of the 
blessed above. 

May the God of my father abide evermore in the halls 
which you now rear. 

I am very truly yours, 

Henry Ward Beecher. 

After the reading of Mr. Beecher' s letter, Dr. Bacon 
said : 

* Kev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., (1775-1863) and Eev. Nathaniel W. Tay- 
lor, D. D., (1786-1858.) It was Dr. Beecher's cherished wish to be buried 
by the side of his life-long friend, Dr. Taylor. " The young men will 
come to see where we lie," he said, " and I think it will do them good." 



Senator Buckingham's Address. 17 

Me. President : — We are honored with the presence 
of one whom the State of Connecticut has entrusted with 
the highest offices in its gift-r-who held in the great war 
for the continued unity of our nation the place which 
the illustrious Trumbull held in the war for our national 
independence— whose services ex officio in the Corpora- 
tion of Yale College during the seven years of his admin- 
istration as Governor of Connecticut, have won for him a 
good degree in our university — and who, by virtue of a 
donation of $30,000, is the most munificent of living 
benefactors to the Theological Department. The name 
of Thomas Buckingham, Pastor of Saybrook, stands 
third in the venerable catalogue of the ten ministers who 
represented, informally, the pastors and churches of 
Connecticut in the founding of Yale College. Mr. Presi- 
dent, we are now to hear a few words from his descen- 
dant, the Honorable William A. Buckingham. Sena- 
tor Buckingham arose and said : 

I am not responsible for the announcement that I 
would make an address on this occasion. I feel very 
much out of place, and yet will comply with one part of 
the request of Dr. Bacon, and promise to be brief. I 
desire that the building which is now to be erected, 
should be permanent and beautiful in its structure, and 
fitted for the great object for which it is to be erected. 
Judging from the design, I have no doubt that it will be. 
But there is something lying back of the building which 
is of greater importance, from which much good may be 
anticipated, and that is, the religious influence which the 
Theological Department shall exert over the Academical, 
Scientific and other Departments of the College. That 
influence will not, of necessity, be beneficial . A man may 
let his mind rest upon religious questions so intensely as 
to neglect the religion of the heart, but it should not and 
need not be so. The studies here pursued relate to the 
government of God, and any man who will give his mind 
to this object, may, if he will, be so deeply imbued with 
the truth and spirit of Christianity, that his religion 
shall have a more permanent and controlling influence 
3 



18 Senator Buckingham ] s Address. 

over his life than it would otherwise have. This would 
be manifest to others, and affect their conduct, and I 
shall be disappointed if this Department shall not, in 
like manner, exert a favorable religious influence through- 
out the University. 

This College was founded for the purpose of fitting 
young men for the ministry. This was the object of the 
fathers who founded it, and should not be lost sight of 
by their children. The letter of Mr. Beecher, speaks of 
the continent, from ocean to ocean, as asking for religious 
teachers. This is true. Never has there been such a cry 
for Christian ministers, never such a demand for reli- 
gious teachers as to-day. How is this demand to be met 1 
According to our present mode of training ministers, 
they are to spend Hye, eight and ten years in preparation 
for their work, and those who have spent less time are 
not considered qualified to fill an ordinary New England 
pulpit. I do not see how we can ever meet the demand, 
if so much time be spent in preparation. The church 
must have some teachers whose hearts are filled with love 
to God, and love to man, and who will be devoted to 
their work, even if they do not have a thorough training ; 
and while the church is not to be satisfied with poor 
preachers, yet it must make use of such instruments as 
it can command, to accomplish its work. If we are sat- 
isfied with the teachings of men of moderate ability and 
attainments, infidelity will grow conceited, arrogant and 
influential. To prevent this, we must encourage and 
support our Theological Institutions, and in them edu- 
cate men to be leaders in the churches. I have strong 
hopes that many who are to be educated here, will 
stand, like Edwards, and Bellamy, and Dwight, from 
their shoulders and upwards, higher than any of the 
people. We must have some ministers who will be 
giants among their brethren. 

West Point has educated men to command our armies. 
You know how efficient Grant, and Sherman and Sheri- 
dan were in organizing our citizens into armies, and how 
successfully they led them against the enemies of our 



Senator Buckingham ] s Address. 19 

country. In like manner were Edwards, and Beecher, 
and Taylor able to organize and nnite Christian men in 
efforts which checked the power of the prince of dark- 
ness. 

Sherman stood so high as a soldier that he commanded 
the confidence of his officers and soldiers, and by his 
genius, which acted like steam upon a high pressure 
engine, led them through the heart of the rebellion, and 
added to the power which compelled a recognition of 
national authority. May we not hope that from this 
institution there will go forth men of like ability, whose 
hearts, and character and talents, will enable them to 
preach with such simplicity and logic, that men of larg- 
est intellect and of coldest hearts, will be convinced that the 
gospel which they preach is the power of God unto sal- 
vation to every one that believeth ; men who will so 
preach, that under the influences of the Holy Spirit, 
scientific infidelity will recognize the presence of a per- 
sonal God, and acknowledge allegiance to his govern- 
ment. Hoping for, and anticipating such results, I 
assure you that I feel a deep interest in the Theological 
Department, and earnestly desire its prosperity. 

Dr. Bacon then said : 

Mr. President : — I have the honor now of introduc- 
ing to you, and to this assembly of our friends, one of 
the princely merchants of New York, who does not for- 
get that by the ties of birth and lineage he belongs to 
Connecticut, and whose munificence has connected his 
name with many institutions of learning as well as with 
many other enterprises of Christian patriotism or philan- 
thropy. When it had become evident that we must have 
our new building, and that we could not have it without 
taking upon ourselves the work of personal solicitation, 
our first attempt in that direction was a letter to him ; 
and his response to our appeal was a promise of $10,000. 
That promise was our first great encouragement ; and 
this day' s work is the result of it. Allow me to call 



20 Address of Hon. William E. Bodge. 

upon the Honorable William E. Dodge. Mr. Dodge 
responded as follows : 

Mr. President : 

It affords me very great pleasure to be present with 
you to-day, and mingle my congratulations with the 
friends of the Theological Department of Yale College on 
this interesting occasion, and to say a few words in the 
short time allotted to me. 

In contemplating the importance of such institutions, 
we have only to look at the rapid strides our country is 
making in the West. State after State is added to our num- 
ber so rapidly that we can hardly keep count of them. It 
has been my fortune, as a business man, to be acquainted 
with many of the parties interested in constructing the 
railroads of the West, and I have watched their rapid 
development of the country. Villages, towns and cities 
are springing up all along these lines, with an active, 
intelligent population, calling for ministers who can aid 
in building up the moral and religious interests of a new 
country, men of good education, and ardent piety, of 
ready, off-hand speech, who will enter into all their 
plans for doing good. Such men are now wanted by 
hundreds, and each year the demand must increase. 

The founders of these cities and towns may not have 
built them with any moral or religious object, but they 
well understand that in order to make them attractive, 
and give value to their lots, they must have the church 
and the minister. I am interested in a line of road 
recently completed, 400 miles in length, across one of our 
rich western states, where have been laid out sixty sites 
for towns, and though the road was commenced only 
four years since, these places now number 500, 1,000, 2,000 
and some as many as 7,000 inhabitants, in each of which 
ministers are needed. The fact is that our western coun- 
try is being settled fifty years in advance of what it 
could have been but for our railroads, and we have, as 
Christian people, made no corresponding efforts to sup- 
ply this unexpected demand for ministers. 



Address of Hon. William E. Dodge. 21 

The consequence is as stated so vividly by Senator 
Buckingham. There never was a time when there was 
such a demand as to-day ; but, sir, when we turn from 
this pressing demand, and look at the supply now ready, 
and the provision making for the future, we find that in 
the Theological Seminaries of all denominations, it is 
hardly sufficient to meet the annual waste, by death and 
other causes, in the congregations now existing. 

In view of these facts, how important and interesting 
the proceedings of this day. Here, surrounded by hun- 
dreds of young men preparing for life' s great work, you 
are erecting a building for training men for what Mr. 
Beecher describes as the most noble and honorable pur- 
suit that can engage the human mind. But where are 
these able, active, working ministers to come from, who 
are wanted in such numbers to lay the foundations of 
what are to be the future cities and towns of the great 
West? 

There are as many, or more young men in our various 
classical institutions, to-day, than ever before, and why 
are they leaving this great work for other pursuits % No 
doubt we may find an answer in part, in the fact that at 
present there is a great lack of earnest prayer and dedica- 
tion of their children to this work on the part of parents, 
and in the strong attractions outside of the ministry, 
which are peculiar to the present time. 

But there are other reasons, and though the young 
men are, to a certain extent, responsible, yet, in my 
opinion, the churches are more or less to blame, and 
something must be done to make the ministry more 
attractive, or, I might, perhaps, say, less repulsive to 
our young men. As they sit down honestly to look at 
what may be their duty, and ask, "Lord, what wilt 
thou have me to do V ' and as they consider the responsi- 
bilities of the Christian ministry, they find that outside 
of our large cities and towns talent, devoted to the 
ministry, and refined by years of culture, is not appre- 
ciated — that young men go from the country and our com- 
mon schools into the cities, and in the store or counting 



22 Address of Hon. William E. Bodge. 

room receive their $1,500 to $3,000 a year, while the coun- 
try pastor must struggle with a small salary of $600, 
$1,000 or $1,200 a year. As they look at the foreign or 
missionary work, they may be ready, for the love of Christ, 
to make any sacrifice, but they cannot understand why 
they should devote their time to a preparation to serve a 
people who do not seem to appreciate the cost of their 
efforts. The fact is, ministers, as a body, are paid less in 
proportion to the time spent in preparation, than any 
other profession or calling, and it is quite time that the 
churches were made to feel that while a young man should 
not enter the ministry for the sake of a position or salary, 
yet they have no right to take the advantage of his con- 
scientious devotion to his Master to obtain his services, 
as many wish to do. Everybody knows that the cost of 
living has been more than doubled in the past ten years, 
and yet how many congregations feel they have been 
very liberal if they have advanced their minister' s salary 
say $200 or $300! I was conversing, a few months since, 
with a most useful pastor of one of the country parishes 
in Massachusetts, a graduate, sir, of Yale, a man of educa- 
tion, talent and refinement. He told me he had been over 
twenty years in the same church — it was his first settle- 
ment — and that he had never received over $800, and most 
of the time but $600, and a parsonage. This gentleman was 
then making great sacrifices to send his oldest son to 
you. I know, sir, there are noble exceptions, but the 
meager salaries paid by most of the churches outside our 
cities and large towns, discourage young men as they 
look to the ministry. They think if they should settle 
in some country place, and should have a family, their 
wife might have to do her work with her baby in her arms, 
because the style in which the congregation lived had so 
raised the price of help that they could not afford to keep 
a servant, and thus hundreds of our young men come to 
the decision that they can be more useful in some other 
calling. 

May I be permitted in this presence to refer to another 
matter which I think of great importance % 



Address of Rev. Edward L. Clark. 23 

There is far too little attention paid in onr Colleges and 
Theological Seminaries, to the cultivation of the voice, 
and the style of delivery. I have, for many years, 
watched onr young ministers, and have been distressed 
to see in how many instances they had failed in this 
respect, to make available the knowledge they had 
acquired by years of careful study ; they had no power 
of voice, or style of delivery, to make an impression on 
an audience, and for lack of this, never attained any 
considerable success. Why, sir, persons intending to 
follow singing on the stage, as a profession, will spend 
years in cultivating the voice, and why should those who 
intend to stand up in God' s name to speak to the people 
the words of eternal life, pay so little attention to the 
manner in which they are to do it % I am only speaking 
of the fact in general ; I do not know how it is here, but 
trust you will so educate the young men who go from this 
Seminary, that they will be able to blow the Gospel 
trumpet in such a manner that it will attract attention 
and not give an uncertain sound. 

In conclusion, let me say, there has never been a time 
when men should feel so deep an interest in such an 
institution as now, or in the erection of such a building. 

The Rev. Edwaed L. Claek, Pastor of the North 
Church in New Haven, was next introduced to speak in 
behalf of the city churches. He said : 

The churches of New Haven are glad to see this day. 
Standing in the view of all the people so near the Semi- 
nary, they feel a peculiar joy in giving a right hand of 
fellowship to the new comer. 

We are as Jachin and Boaz to each other, before the 
upper temple. You, the Jachin, with students ripening 
in your toils like pomegranates of old in the net- work of 
the capital. We as Boaz, — suggesting a gleaning for 
golden grain, and a lending hand for the reaping. Come 
and we will help you, dropping sheaves at the word of 
the Master. Come and help us in a still better harvest- 



24 Address of Rev. Edward L. Clark. 

ing. We are honored or neglected together. If we 
were only selfish, we should still congratulate yon 
warmly to-day. 

Have we not, too, a common educational service? Is 
not the Pastor set to instruct in natural and revealed 
theology, ecclesiastical history, and sacred literature. 
We are glad, then, that the Davids of this generation 
are not only faithful in war and successful in the pur- 
suits of peace, but love also to remember the house 
of God. 

I doubt if we shall see the walls fairly up, before we 
feel repaid for giving, by receiving a new impulse toward 
the studies you pursue within them. What boy in ap- 
plying the discoveries of science in the most homely way, 
does not feel honored in his work by the munificence 
which founded the Scientific School ? What love of art 
in its thousand daily applications to real life, can pass 
the monument of Mr. Street' s generosity without a noble 
spirit of desire to excel in that calling? How much 
more devoutly and joyfully shall the multitude keep 
holy day within our church doors, because of your 
lifted gates. 

Yet, all this does not express the half of our sym- 
pathy. We have found that your students, are not only 
skillful tacticians, but good soldiers as they apply 
the art of our spiritual warfare in the field. Glorying in 
the ability to make scientific statement of theological 
doctrine, they have been content to become living apos- 
tles. Not satisfied with manner, ' Vox et prseterea nihil, ' ' 
they have displayed the spirit of Elijah, and have be- 
come like true evangelists. How can we help looking 
with confidence at this corner stone, when you build 
these characters upon simple love to Christ \ 

Permit a word of grateful, admiring love for the mem- 
ory of that man who was a pastor here, as well as a teacher 
in your school. To us who did not see him, his name 
was the suggestion of a learning which never chilled the 
heart. He seems still to linger here, a man consumed 
with zeal for souls — one hand upon the church, the other 



Address of Rev. Edwin P. Parker. 25 

upon the Seminary— a schoolmaster to bring ns both to 
Christ, At once a Boarneges and a "disciple whom 
Jesus loved," his word to us is "Love one another." 
Whether the sun of prosperity or storms of trial await 
us, we will bear them together. Ever mindful of that 
heroic soul, Dr. Taylor, we shall rejoice in his mantle 
and "love one another." 

The Rev. Edwin Pond Parker, Pastor of the South 
Church in Hartford, was then introduced, and spoke as 
follows : 

I have been requested to say a few words, on this occa- 
sion, concerning the interest which the churches and 
ministers of Connecticut may reasonably be supposed to 
feel in the efforts now making to build up in greater 
efficiency and honor the Divinity School of Yale College. 
I am neither a native of Connecticut, nor a graduate of 
Yale, nor was any part of my theological instruction 
received in this School of the prophets, in whose name 
we are gathered. But because I am a "son of the 
stranger," and come up hither to an unaccustomed 
shrine, it may be that my word of testimony and good 
will shall have the greater significance. 

Yale College belongs to New England. Dear to all 
evangelical churches, throughout these Northern States 
at least, has been and still is the venerable seat of learn- 
ing in whose shadow we sit to-day. Born and brought 
up in the uttermost State of Maine, from my earliest 
childhood I was accustomed to hear Yale College spoken 
of in terms expressive of both pride and affection. Of 
Harvard College the Down-Easters are justly proud. 
But great as is the regard in which they cherish her his- 
tory and name, heartily as they rejoice in her growth 
and prosperity, and bid her "God-speed," it is never- 
theless true that the evangelical churches throughout 
New England look to Yale with a peculiar interest, affec- 
tion and hope, since here the faith of their fathers is still 
held in its purity by those who guard the treasures, dis- 



26 Address of Rev. Edwin P. Parker. 

pense the instruction, and administer the government of 
this University. 

How much more deeply interested in all that concerns 
its welfare must be the churches and clergy of this State 
in the soil of which the College nourishes, related to it, 
as they necessarily are, so much more intimately and 
vitally ! 

As for these ministers of Connecticut, so many of whom 
cherish Yale as their Alma Mater, and come up hither 
to her annual festival as to a kind of Mount Zion, with 
all manner of rejoicings, I need say nothing. The mother 
who kindles in the bosoms of her sons an affection so 
deep, and a respect so true and permanent, establishes 
her claim to universal respect and honor. 

For the churches of this State I may say that for three 
good reasons at least, they are deeply interested in 
the expansion and upbuilding of this College. 

1. Yale College is the child of these same churches. 
She was brought forth of them, and they took care of 
her. In the days of her humbler history and narrower 
ways and low estate, they encompassed her with their 
affection and prayers and support. And now that she 
has grown to be so great and honorable, God having 
highly exalted her and given into her hands so great 
power and glory all abroad, shall we suppose that she 
has become unmindful of her parentage, or that they who 
gave her birth and nurture have unnaturally forgotten 
and forsaken their child % No ! These churches have 
marked each step in her upward career, have rejoiced 
in her every success, and still lift her up to God in the 
arms of their love and faith. And thus may it ever be. 

2. That great system of circulation by which the sea 
supplies the waste of the rivers and brooks, and the 
rivers and brooks return again to pour themselves into 
the sea, is scarcely surer in its operation than the move- 
ment to and fro between the College and the churches of 
this State, whereby both have been fed and supported in 
a mutual relation of dependence. From the churches 
young men have been going up to the College in a con- 



Address of Rev. Edwin P. Parker. 27 

tinuous procession through all these years, for their dis- 
cipline and culture, and from the College, as continu- 
ously, young men have been coming back, clad in new 
strength and power, to take their places in the churches, 
either as pastors or laymen. Not to speak of what has 
been done by Yale in the way of furnishing the churches 
with able and cultivated ministers, she has been con- 
stantly and powerfully reinforcing them with educated 
men who, while pursuing secular callings, have not for- 
gotten the service of Christ. These educated men of 
business, who are found in all our churches, are doing a 
mighty work for Christ in the use of their culture and 
wealth. They are the men of ideas, the men of breadth 
and liberality. They are pillars and powers. And so 
the College and the churches are knit together. So the 
shuttles are constantly flying back and forth between 
them, which weave their separate interests inseparably 
together more and more. 

3. The churches, ever foremost in promoting the 
enlightenment and education of society, have a special 
interest in all efforts that are made by the College to fur- 
nish the best opportunities and facilities for a many-sided 
and complete culture, and, with its universal provisions, 
to meet the manifold demands of the age. Men are 
needed who shall be broader than their professions. A 
culture is required that, like honey, is gathered from all 
fields and every sweet flower. To develope the entire 
man, and not merely some particular powers or capaci- 
ties of his mind, is the true idea of education. The Col- 
lege must hasten, then, to realize the University idea — to 
become an universal School, and so make provision not 
so much for this and that immediate demand of society 
as for its broader and permanent wants ; not so much for 
this and that man' s peculiar preparation and equipment 
in special departments of knowledge, as for the educa- 
tion of the ideal or representative man,— having the 
necessities of a generation, of society, of "the times" 
always before it. Therefore must it round out its courses 
of study, and group together all departments of learning, 



28 Address of Rev. Edwin P. Parker. 

and provide for that complete and catholic culture that 
is broader than any single vocation or any special depart- 
ment of knowledge, that stands not in any one man's 
attainments, but rather in a common grace and general 
refinement and sweet atmosphere. In the history of Yale 
College one traces the gradual unfolding of this very 
idea and purpose. Around the College, connected with 
and yet distinct from it, have sprung up the Law School, 
the Divinity School, the Scientific School, to say nothing 
of the Art Gallery and Gymnasium. Not the least impor- 
tant of these several Departments is the Theological 
School, in whose increased prosperity and usefulness the 
churches of Christ feel a special interest. No system of 
education can be complete or satisfactory that makes no 
adequate provision for religious instruction and culture. 
The Romanists are right in theory on this matter. A 
purely secular or scientific education is partial and unde- 
sirable. Popular liberty and national prosperity, no 
less than personal well-being, must rest on the knowledge 
of God and of His law. As surely as we are creatures of 
a Divine Hand, and stand related to a world that is 
invisible and eternal, the knowledge of Him in whom we 
live and move and have our being, and of Him by 
whom all things consist, is the transcendent knowledge. 
"Of what use is it for man to conquer the universe," 
says Father Hyacinthe, " if he loses his soul." 

The supreme science is the science of God. St. Paul 
must needs come to Athens and declare the unknown 
God. The Gospel of Christ opens heavens upon heavens 
and all unutterably wonderful things to the most con- 
summate earth-bound culture and philosophy. Through- 
out the entire history of Yale College, that high and holy 
purpose in which it was founded has had a continuous 
development. The hope in which the fathers planted 
and prayed has not been disappointed. With gratitude 
to God the churches of Connecticut behold new unfold - 
ings of that same hope and purpose, in the recent efforts 
that have been made to put greater honor upon this 
Divinity School, to expand and strengthen it, and to make 



Address of Rev. Edwin P. Parker. 29 

it, in all respects, a worthy Department of this venerable 
University. In behalf of these churches I heartily con- 
gratulate the officers of Yale College, and more especially 
the board of instructors in. the Theological Department, 
on this occasion. The architectural symmetry and com- 
pleteness of this great institution of learning, as a whole, 
require the erection of the edifice whose corner-stone you 
lay to-day. In the name of the churches I bespeak for 
you entire success in this enterprise, and a continual and 
even unexpected prosperity in all your good work. May 
this School of the prophets, free from all that is merely 
traditional in theology, and unencumbered by dead con- 
troversies and obsolete dogmas, but holding firmly to 
the fundamental truths of Christianity, enter upon a new 
career of usefulness and honor. May it send forth from 
year to year an increasing number of able, pious, and 
free men, fully equipped for the service of the Gospel 
ministry. May it become the ecclesiastical center and 
the rallying-point for the ministry of this State. To its 
frequent public services may the pastors gather to give 
whatever of encouragement they may, and to receive so 
much of inspiration as they can. So, more and more, 
may the churches of our commonwealth bear this College 
with all its manifold interests upon their hearts, giving 
to it their affections, their prayers, their charities, in 
larger measure. So may it also yield back its blessings 
to the churches of our land in still greater abundance. 

" Peace be within thy walls, 
Prosperity within thy palaces. 
For my brethren and companions' sakes 
I will now say, Peace be within thee !" 

The Rev. Theeon Baldwin, D.D., Secretary of the 
Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological 
Education at the West, a graduate of Yale in the class 
of 1827, and an early alumnus of the Divinity School, 
was invited to represent the relations of the Department 
to American Home Missions. His address, rich with 
valuable reminiscences, was to this effect : 



SO Address of Mev. TTieron Baldwin. 

I can only report in part on the topic assigned to me, 
not having access to any triennial catalogue of the Semi- 
nary, later than that of 1847. It appears, however, that 
the first two students — Xenophon Betts and Chester 
Birge — who went to the West from this Seminary, were 
commissioned by the American Home Missionary Society 
for Ohio, in 1828. In November of the same year a dis- 
sertation was read in the Society of Inquiry respecting 
Missions, the design of which was to awaken in the mind 
of every student the inquiry, "What can I as an indi- 
vidual do ?" and that, by showing what some of the lead- 
ing spirits of the race had accomplished, and that the 
present state of the world was favorable to great indi- 
vidual results. 

Mason Grosvenor went to his room, revolving the 
above inquiry in his own mind. It disturbed the slum- 
bers of the night, but the conception was reached of 
forming an association of students, who should select for 
their field of labor some one of the new States at the 
West, and bring into operation within its limits all the 
civilizing and christianizing agencies of society. Illinois 
was selected as the field, by reason of its amazing unde- 
veloped resources, its position in the sisterhood of 
States, and its prospective greatness. 

The " Illinois Association " was formed, and seven of 
us put our names to a written document, pledging our- 
selves to this work on certain conditions. The Academ- 
ical and Theological Faculties cordially endorsed the en- 
terprise, and in the fall of 1829 Julian M. Sturtevant and 
myself left for Illinois, as pioneers of the Association. 
At about the same time, and through the interest excited 
in that field, Stiles Hawley and Charles P. Grosvenor 
went to Illinois as Sunday school missionaries. In the 
month of January following, the devoted Hawley, while 
prosecuting his mission, was drowned in the Kaskaskia 
river. Eleven weeks after, we took him from his watery 
bed, constructed a rude coffin and buried him on the 
wild banks of that stream. 

This Illinois movement excited at the time a wide- 
spread public interest, not only from its novelty but the 



Address of Beo. Titer on Baldwin. 31 

fact that there was then among the churches extensive 
alarm in regard to the prevalence of infidelity and Ro- 
manism in the great valley, as well as a conviction 
among statesmen that the day was not distant when the 
balance of political power would be beyond the Allegha- 
nies, and consequently, if the nation were saved, that 
power must be educated and christianized. To this 
work the Association was especially adapted, as it was 
formed on the principle that education and religion 
must go hand in hand in the work of the world' s conver- 
sion. 

The sympathy and aid of the American Home Mission- 
ary Society was given to the movement in its inception and 
in all its progress ; indeed, a communication in the Home 
Missionary for December, 1828, from the pen of Rev. J. 
M. Ellis, then at Jacksonville, 111., had much to do with 
the selection of that State as a field. 

The Association, in the meantime, was enlarged by the 
addition of others to the original seven, and in succes- 
sion, as they completed their theological course, they 
took their departure for Illinois. The interest thus 
awakened in the field naturally operated with great 
strength at the Seminary ; and although our honored 
teacher, Dr. Taylor, had very cheerfully signed, with 
other members of the Faculty, a recommendation of the 
enterprise, he afterwards seemed somewhat to relent. 
Pressed on every hand by the theological conflicts of that 
day, he felt that he needed his students at home and 
around him. With all his intellectual grasp and fore- 
cast, he failed to fully comprehend how sure he would 
be greatly to augment his own influence and increase the 
power of the Seminary for good, by taking possession of 
the growing West. 

As a result of the interest awakened at New Haven, 
this Seminary has had, first and last, no less than forty 
representatives in Illinois, making that State its special 
field. Ohio, however, was not far behind, having had 
some thirty Yale Seminary students within its bounds, 
and I wish some Ohio man were present to speak for 



32 Address of Rev. Theron Baldwin. 

that State. Four alumni of the Seminary also found 
their way to Indiana, four to Wisconsin, and five to 
Iowa. Some five-sixths of the whole number went to the 
West under commissions from the American Home Mis- 
sionary Society, and the other sixth as teachers or as 
pastors of churches by which they were supported ; but 
all may be appropriately brought into the great Home 
Missionary movement. 

There is no time to set forth even in the most summary 
manner the results of Home Missionary operations at the 
West, as viewed in this large sense, nor would it be pos- 
sible to bring any analysis to bear that would show in 
how large a proportion these results are traceable to this 
Seminary, and I will conclude with a few general state- 
ments which may help our conceptions. 

1. Of the six secretaries of the American Home Mis- 
sionary Society three have been furnished by this Semi- 
nary, and these — Drs. Milton Badger, D. B. Coe, and 
A. H. Clapp — constitute the present working force at 
New York. 

2. No less than ten of our Alumni have acted more or 
less as general agents of the Society — not collecting 
agents except in a very subordinate sense — but exploring 
agents, moral engineers, architects on the great temple, 
which, in the providence of Gfod, has been going up in 
that new world. As earliest in the field, I had myself 
the honor, in the order of time, of heading them, and 
then followed Flavel Bascom, Albert Hale, William 
Kirby, and Elisha Jenney, in Illinois ; Asa Turner, J. 
A. Reed and Jesse Guernsey, in Iowa ; Reuben Gaylord, 
in Nebraska, and L. Smith Hobart who came back from 
Michigan to perform a similar service in the State of 
New York. 

3. Yale Seminary has furnished five Presidents for 
Western colleges, viz. : Edward Beecher, J. M. Sturte- 
vant, W. S. Curtis, J. P. Gulliver and G. F. Magoun ; 
also five Professors, viz.: Henry Cowles and John P. 
Cowles at Oberlin, Henry N. Day at Western Reserve 
College, George E. Day at Lane Seminary, and William 
Twining at Wabash College. 



Donation of Deacon Aaron Benedict. 33 

4. Yale Seminary also stands directly connected with 
the origin and operations of the Society for the Promo- 
tion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, 
whose aid has reached sixteen institutions, scattered 
from Eastern Ohio to the Pacific Ocean, and which have 
already sent out more than 2,000 graduates and 700 the- 
ological students, and are now living powers in the 
young empires where they have been planted. 

More than 1,000 Congregational churches (to say noth- 
ing of others) are already at the West — Connecticut 
three times over, — some 250 in Illinois alone, and to be 
500 in the next twenty-five years. Mr. President, with 
such a record before you, lay your corner-stone, and go 
forward in the strength of the Lord. 

A letter was then read, which had been received a 
few hours before, from Deacon Charles Benedict of the 
Second Congregational Church in Waterbury, Conn., 
written in behalf of his father, the venerable Deacon 
Aaeon Benedict of the First Church in the same city, 
an old friend of Dr. Taylor, and tendering in the name 
of his father and mother the sum of Ten Thousand 
dollars towards the erection of the Divinity Hall. The 
announcement of this timely and munificent gift was 
received with manifest gratification by the audience. 

After the reading of Deacon Benedict's letter, Dr. 
Bacon said : 

Me. Peesident : — Waterbury is a place that has good 
deacons ; and sometimes good deacons in other places 
are from Waterbury. The Broadway Tabernacle Church 
in New York, — the pastor of which has warmly interested 
himself in this effort and which has contributed largely 
to our Building Fund, — had such a deacon, and still 
claims him in some sort, though he has transferred his 
residence from that city to ISTew Jersey. He, too, is num- 
bered among the benefactors of the Theological Depart- 
ment ; and his zeal for us " hath provoked many." He 
has been, heretofore, a benefactor to the Academical and 
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34 Address of Samuel Holmes, Esq. 

Scientific Departments, having founded ^.ve scholarships 
for Waterbury boys, one in each of the four College 
classes, and one in the Sheffield School. His donation 
to the Theological Department ($25,000 payable in suc- 
cessive installments) is not applicable directly to the 
work which we are now inaugurating, but is to be an 
endowment for the professorship of Hebrew. Yet to 
him our Building Fund is largely though indirectly 
indebted ; for his donation was so timed and conditioned, 
that it became a powerful encouragement to effort on 
our part and to liberality on the part of his friends and 
ours. I have the privilege of introducing him to you, 
Mr. President, and to this assembly, — Samuel Holmes 
Esq., of Mont Clair, New Jersey. 

Mr. Holmes said : 

I do not feel, Mr. President, that it would be proper 
for me to detain the audience at this late hour, by any 
words of mine, further than to express my interest in the 
occasion which has brought us together, and in what we 
have heard. 

We have had set before us the history of the institu- 
tion in the past, and its hopes for the future, and I think 
there are few of us who will not feel a responsibility 
regarding it which we have never felt before. These hon- 
ored professors, called to occupy the places of those noble 
men who so worthily filled their chairs of office, and 
whose influence still remains to such a marked degree, 
cannot but feel that with their increased facilities, must 
come greater obligations, obligations which, with faith 
in G-od, they are ready to meet. 

But not to them only, but to all of us, comes home the 
inquiry, "Lord what will thou have me to do in this 
matter?" 

One of these professors, in view of the great need of 
young men to fill our Seminaries, and to go forth from 
them, an educated ministry for Christ, has lately put the 
inquiry in forcible language, "Wliere are the men, in 
any proportion to the needs of the country and of the 



Address of Samuel Holmes, Esq. 35 

world?" Are we not in great danger of overlooking 
this necessity in the present age ? 

Some of ns are Christian parents ; what are we doing, 
and what is our duty in this matter % Do we not need to 
go back to the cradle and to the early consecration there % 
Are we educating our children with any reference to this 
work., if God shall see fit to call them to it, leading them 
to feel that the Christian ministry, yea, the work of sav- 
ing souls, which Christ himself initiated by giving up his 
heavenly glory and descending to earth to accomplish it, 
is the highest and noblest, the most Christ-like of any 
work in which they may be permitted to engage, — or, are 
we training them for the pleasures, the honors, or the 
riches of this world % 

Let us look into our obligations and act in view of our 
responsibilities to them, to the world, and to God, and 
in such a manner as we shall wish we had done when 
come to stand together in the great day of account. 

Some of us are business men, to whom God has given 
other ways of usefulness, through the means entrusted 
to our care. Do we realize, as we ought, that we are 
stewards for God, that all that we have is His, and that 
we ourselves have been bought with a price, even the 
precious blood of the Son of God, and that we are bound 
to use all, as consecrated to Him and to His service % 

Have we not a special duty towards this Seminary, 
and similar institutions, in furnishing the means for sus- 
taining them, and for aiding the young men who shall 
give up their lives to this blessed ministry % 

And shall not the churches represented by these pas- 
tors, more than they have been doing latterly, seek out 
competent young men, and aid and encourage them to go 
forward in an educational course for this noble work, 
assuring them that though it may have its trials, (as has 
been alluded to here,) yet that they are not worthy to be 
compared to the joys that shall follow the faithful 
laborer through life, and which await him, when, his 
work done, he shall come to the great ingathering of the 
harvest, " bringing his sheaves with him." 



36 Letters of Professors Morse and Salisbury. 

I trust, Mr. President, that our interest in this Sem- 
inary will not cease with the laying of the corner-stone, 
but that we shall continue to feel an abiding care for 
it, giving, as we may be permitted, not only towards the 
completion of the building, but towards fully endowing its 
professorships and scholarships, and above all, remem- 
bering it in our prayers, that the blessing of God may 
rest upon it, and that a great multitude may here be 
raised up, who shall go forth as heralds of salvation to 
all the nations of the earth. 

From the large number of letters received from the 
alumni of the School, and other mininsters of the gospel, 
and from benefactors of the Seminary, who were unable 
to be present but expressed their hearty interest in the 
occasion, the two following are taken— one from Prof. 
S. F. B. Moese, the other from Prof. Edwaed E. Salis- 
bitky, both graduates of Yale College and liberal bene- 
factors of the Theological Department. 

Poughkeepsie, September 20, 1869. 

Dear Sir ; I have received your special invitation to 
attend the exercises at the laying of the corner-stone of 
the new Theological Hall, on the 22d instant. It would 
give me the greatest pleasure to be present were I able, 
but, not having recovered from the effects of my late 
accident, I am deprived of this gratification. May God 
bless the Institution and make it the instrument of more 
widely spreading the gospel of His dear Son. 
With respect and Christian esteem, 

Your obedient servant, 

Samuel F. B. Morse. 

Lenox, Mass., September 18, 1869. 

Rev. Professor Dwight — My Dear Sir ; It will not 
be convenient for me to be in New Haven on the day 
of the laying of the corner-stone of the new Theological 
Hall, but I shall be with you in spirit, rejoicing in the near 



Address of Hon. Peter Parker. 37 

prospect of your long deferred hope. May the old sym- 
bol of Yale, "Lux et Veritas" be, pre-eminently, the seal 
of these new foundations, and receive new illustrations 
in the future history, as in the past, of this School of 
Sacred Learning. - 

With much regard, 

Your friend and servant, 

Edward E. Salisbury. 

The Hon. Peter Parker, M.D., a graduate of Yale 
College, and an alumnus of the Divinity School in the 
class of 1834, formerly a missionary in China, and after- 
wards Commissioner from the government of the United 
States to the government of that empire, was called upon 
to represent the relations of this Divinity School to 
American Foreign Missions. His address, abridged in 
speaking, was as follows : 

I am deeply indebted to the Faculty of the Theological 
Seminary of Yale College for their invitation, on this 
occasion of laying the corner-stone of the new Theolog- 
ical Hall, to say a few words on the subject of Foreign 
Missions. 

On receiving this invitation I felt an inexpressible 
satisfaction at the fresh evidence it afforded that the mis- 
sionary cause is still prominent in this Seminary, and 
were it one of the last acts of my life, I should deem it a 
high privilege to say anything that may promote now, 
and in all time to come, the true missionary spirit, which 
is the spirit of Christ. 

Thirty -five years have elapsed since my departure for 
China from this city, ever, in my estimation, the Eden of 
America, and which in my experiences here will be re- 
membered with gratitude in heaven. The period of a gen- 
eration has passed, and marvelous changes have been 
wrought in both hemispheres. The recollections of the 
years spent here are full of tender emotions. I remember 
the kindness and aid of the best friends man ever had. 



38 Address of Hon. Peter Parker. 

The death-bed scenes here witnessed are still fresh in 
memory— of a beloved class-mate, Seddon, of Tutor Pettin- 
gill, Wm. Leflingwell, Henry Dwight, and the yonthfnl 
Evarts. At their bedside I watched, witnessed their last 
breath, and closed the eyelids, after death, of several of 
them, and mingled my prayers with the weeping survi- 
vors. 

The glorious revival in College and city, in 1831, has 
left an indelible impression upon my mind, and the 
influence of it has been felt throughout this land, in Africa, 
Asia and China, and will continue forever. Judges 
Daggett and Bristol, venerable with age, and young men, 
since become Governors and Senators, Professors in 
Colleges and Theological Seminaries, Bishops and emi- 
nent Divines, were subjects of that revival. 

Many other associations are recalled by my return to 
these seats of learning and religion, but this is not the 
occasion for dwelling upon them, though I trust I may 
be pardoned for alluding to them. 

From the extracts of the record of the founding of 
Yale College, just read, we are informed of the para- 
mount aim of its founders, but that not till 1822, was a 
Department specifically Theological, established. 

Not now to speak of those who were here trained for 
the ministry previous to that date, we have occasion for 
gratitude to God for what the Seminary has done for the 
cause of Christ in New England, in the vast West, and 
among the remotest nations. With the new accommo- 
dations and more thoroughly systematized course of in- 
struction in all its departments, and with its learned 
and devoted Faculty, may we not anticipate still greater 
and wider influences to go forth from this Seminary dur- 
ing the half century to come % 

The answer to this question, other things being equal, 
will materially depend upon the contingency, whether or 
not the whole field, which is the world, shall be embraced 
by the Faculty and students. 

The decree has been passed in heaven, and published 
on earth, that all flesh shall see the salvation of God, 



Address of Hon. Peter Parker. 39 

(Luke iii, 6.) "I will declare the decree : the LORD hath 
said unto me, Thon art my son ; this day have I begot- 
ten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for 
thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth 
for thy possession." 

"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All 
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, 
therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost ; teaching them to observe all things whatso- 
ever I have commanded you ; and, lo, I am with you 
alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." 

" Jesus came and spake." Who is Jesus % He who, 
"in the beginning was with God and was God. The 
same was in the beginning with God. All things were 
made by him ; and without him was not anything made 
that was made." 

' ' Jesus came. ' ' Whence % Originally from the bosom 
of the Father. "No man hath seen God, but the Son, 
who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared 
him." " All power" physical and moral. The phys- 
ical power of the universe, and the moral power over the 
inhabitants of earth and heaven, in time and eternity, 
are his. 

" God is love," and has so loved the world as to give 
his only begotten Son to die for its redemption. 

These, and many others of corresponding import, are 
truths of the Bible. I cannot fully comprehend them, 
but in my inmost soul I believe them. They are so many 
illustrations of Paul' s meaning, when he prayed for the 
Ephesians that they might be able to comprehend, with 
all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, 
and height ; and to know the love of Christ which 
passeth knowledge. 

These are great truths, believed, embraced and acUd 
upon by the Theological Seminary of Yale College, in 
the past ; and our devoute.st aspiration is that they may % * 
continue to be, till the kingdoms of this world shall become \ 

the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ. These are the 



40 Address of Hon. Peter Parker. 

grand principles cherished by Professors Olmsted, 
Kingsley, Silliman, Gribbs, Goodrich and Taylor, and by 
President Day. They are now held by their worthy con- 
temporaries who remain and are their successors in office, 
and Gfod grant they may be by all who shall fill their places 
in generations to come. The influence the missionary 
spirit is calculated to produce upon this Seminary can- 
not be over-estimated. Let a theological institution be 
deeply and scripturally imbued with this spirit, and we 
may dismiss solicitude for its soundness in other respects. 

Foreign Missions are by some represented as failures ! 
Tell us amid the effulgence of the meridian sun, that that 
luminary no longer sends down its floods of light and 
warms no more the earth and its inhabitants — the former 
assertion affects us as little as the latter. We look over 
the history of missions and note their triumphs in 
Europe and America, in Africa and Asia, India, China, 
Japan, and the Pacific Islands, and deliberately say, God 
grant such failures, till the whole earth is subjugated to 
the gentle yoke of Christ. 

It is related of Xavier, that on landing on the island 
of St. John, on the coast of China, two centuries since, 
as he looked towards the empire then surrounded by a 
barrier of exclusion more massive than the great wall, 
he exclaimed : u O rock, rock, when wilt thou open V 
Not till centuries had elapsed was the question to be an- 
swered. Since the establishment of this Seminary, some 
half century ago, that great event has come. To-day 
China is opened ! Christianity, no longer excluded, is 
now tolerated ; first by Imperial Rescript, dated 19th 
December, 1843 ; afterwards by express stipulations in 
solemn treaties with the principal nations of the West. 
The Bible has been translated into the language spoken by 
360,000,000 people, and is being circulated under Imperial 
junctions throughout the Provinces. Temples of Chris- 
tian worship, first officially granted in the United States 
Treaty with China, in 184$, have been established ; 
churches formed, and more than 3,000 Chinese of both 
sexes have given up their idols, and publicly professed 
the religion of Christ. 



Address of Hon. Peter Parker. 41 

The influence of Stevens, Ball, Macy and Achison, of ( 
this Seminary, with that of the Morrisons, W&se^s,.^^ (l1&JP 
Bridgman, Abeel, Gfutzlaff, Medhnrst, and others now 
deceased, in bringing it about, under Him to whom all 
power belongs, cannot be fully known in this world. 
They were good men, with endowments intellectual and 
religious, which would have qualified them for any 
station. Others are still living, who have labored or 
are laboring to carry forward the great work, some of 
them model missionaries, and will be remembered in the 
future history of the Church and her Missions. 

On another occasional may be permitted to record some 
facts, now history, of the manner in which the free toler- 
eration of Christianity in China has been brought about 
in the sovereign providence of God, and incidentally the 
participation which this Seminary, through its represen- 
tatives, has been privileged to enjoy. 

I know it to be the desire of the Faculty and friends 
of this Seminary that an impression, on this occasion, 
may be made upon the hundreds of young men of Yale 
College here present, which shall long remain and bring 
forth good fruit, and that what the Seminary has done 
for missions to the heathen may be but the beginning of 
what it will do in the future. 

There are different methods of presenting to Christians 
generally and to Christian young men of education the 
subject of missions. It may be exhibited in the light of 
interest or of privilege. The first places the missionary 
calling in the category of the learned professions of law, 
medicine and divinity. Arguments conformed to this 
classification would never affect me. But present it in 
its bearings as a privilege, in the light of a call of G-od, 
with the results to be realized here and hereafter, and the 
soul is on fire. 

Young men ! I wish to state to you one of the sub- 
limest of truisms, and which, since it was apprehended 
by my own mind, has influenced the whole course of my 
life and will affect me and others eternally. 
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42 Address of Simeon B. Chittenden, Esq. 

It is this : We have but one life to live on earth, and 
i *V % t \ * we should make the most of it possible ; that in deter- 
mining onr course in time, we should take into consider- 
ation the entire range of our being, the temporal and 
eternal portion of it. The division of our existence on 
this side the grave, an infinitessimal ; beyond, infinite ! 

Let these truisms be present to the understanding 
while in College, and then upon leaving it and taking a 
fresh departure, you lay your course for life, and you 
can scarcely err. At the same time, " Trust in the Lord 
with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own under- 
standing. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He 
shall direct thy paths." 

Dr. Bacon then said : 

Mr. President : — The time is failing us, yet let me 
ask your attention and that of our assembled friends to 
another benefactor who rarely speaks to inattentive 
hearers. He is not indeed a contributor directly to the 
Divinity School, but his large contribution of $40,000 to 
the fund for the support of the College Pastor brings him 
very near to us. I am permitted to call upon Simeon B. 
Chittenden, Esq., of Brooklyn, 1ST. Y. 

Mr. Chittenden spoke as follows : 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

I have been deeply interested in the exercises of this 
occasion, and while listening to the speakers who have 
preceded me, I have been thinking that there is no 
service ever undertaken by good and cultivated men so 
discouraging, and for the time present, so unrewarding, 
as soliciting funds for the founding of educational insti- 
tutions, especially those of the higher order. The better 
the cause, the harder the service and the slower the pro- 
gress. The reason is, that the great mass of those who 
possess money don't know the best uses for it. 

It is amazing, when one thinks of it seriously, that 
Yale College, and this Seminary in whose interest we 
have met to-day, command so little consideration from 
the great communities and classes who have shared and 
enjoyed their benefits. 



Address of Simeon B. Chittenden, Esq. 43 

A startling event, as when death suddenly strikes a 
shining mark, or remorselessly groups and grasps a 
crowd of strong men, and by one poisonous breath, bur- 
ies them in a painless death a little before their time, 
(according to our short sight,) touches the sympathies of 
the people and opens wide their purses. We have just 
had such a case. Witness the abounding streams which 
flow to the survivors at Avondale ! God forbid that I 
should hinder one drop from this generous flow of hu- 
man sympathy for the pitiable victims of that disaster. 
But see how blindly and unintelligently the money is 
given ! Sensational newspapers and individuals here 
and there, at their own motion, announce their readi- 
ness to receive contributions for the Avondale sufferers. 
Money flows in like water. People look to see the foot- 
ing of thousands counted, and praise the givers. But 
who watches to see how or by whom their charities are 
administered ? Everybody reads the sum total contrib- 
uted, in all the papers, and that is the end, substantially, 
of the interest or observation of the public. 

Now contrast with this free and generous giving, the 
slow and grudging process by which the meager funds 
of this Seminary are replenished. Again, contrast the 
ephemeral nature of the one cause, and the ceaseless far- 
reaching sweep of the other. 

There are three classes numerously represented in this 
large and highly intelligent audience, either of which 
has wealth enough, and should have the will, to make 
Yale College the noblest, the most powerful and useful 
University on the American continent. 

New Haven has lost the grand opportunity of doubling 
swiftly its population and wealth, by giving the College 
half a thousand acres of land a mile or two from the spot 
where we now stand ; but the privilege is still open to 
the citizens of this beautiful town, of contributing freely 
to the upbuilding of the College and Seminary, and they 
will find themselves enriched in mind and purse just in 
proportion as they engage in the work. I have not given 
anything to the Seminary yet, and judge from a glance 



44 Address of Simeon B. Chittenden, Esq. 

at a list of New Haven folks who have, that at least forty- 
nine of every fifty persons present belong to my party. 

The people of New Haven shonld pre-eminently sup- 
port these great and good institutions. If from no 
higher motive, because it pays to do it. There is profit 
in it. What would New Haven have been to-day with- 
out Yale College 2 Suppose for a minute that old Guil- 
ford had succeeded, 150 years ago, in locating it there. 
I know that I appeal to the lowest motives ; but while 
mankind make the growth of communities and wealth 
their chief aims, so long we may come down to this level 
when we appeal for general contributions for educational 
and eleemosynary institutions. 

In respect to the people of New Haven, this appeal 
touches the interests of all classes and denominations. 
Yale University should be — and I learn is — a catholic 
institution ; I mean a liberal institution. There is not a 
man in New Haven who owns an inch of soil who is not 
directly interested in her advancing prosperity. A few 
of your intelligent and wealthy citizens have given of 
their abundance. What is wanted now is the exercise of 
a general and generous public sentiment expressed in 
gifts. 

If New Haven hesitates, then let the people of Connec- 
ticut, and her sons wherever found, gladly show their 
appreciation of this source of Connecticut' s power and 
highest honor, by contributing freely to enlarge and 
exalt this time-honored institution. 

I had the honor, last winter, of being present at a fes- 
tival given in New York by the Alumni of Yale. If I 
remember rightly, your learned and distinguished Presi- 
dent said on that occasion that her Alumni had not been 
her chief benefactors. This was a surprise to me. I saw 
before me a great crowd of men, all glorying in old Yale 
as their Alma Mater, many of them occupying high 
stations — many others possessing great wealth and in- 
fluence. Why, I thought, shouldn't these, her gifted 
and proud sons, fill her treasury full ? Give me (I felt) 
what Yale has given hundreds of that brilliant company, 



Address of Rev. Professor Daggett. 45 

and I lvould willingly surrender the gleanings of a busy 
life. 

Why is it, oh sons of Yale ! that yon, who have felt 
her benefits in your own prosperity — you who so well un- 
derstand her struggles and her triumphs — that you who 
know so well her power and usefulness, and glory so 
much in her impress upon the character of the nation, 
do not rise in the might of your intellect and wealth, to 
do whatever is needful to exalt and aggrandize her % 

While sitting here to-day, I have been impressed with 
a new sense of the possible splendid future of these insti- 
tutions. Let not the people of Connecticut forget them ! 
Let not the sons of Yale forget their Alma Mater ! 

The Rev. Prof. Daggett, as Pastor of the Church in 
Yale College, being invited to say a few words, spoke 
as follows : 

After all the addresses to which we have listened on 
this occasion, and even at this late hour, we may prop- 
erly turn to one view that has not been already pre- 
sented here. 

We are about to lay the corner-stone of the new 
Divinity College. Let us remind ourselves that the liv- 
ing " corner-stone " of the whole true Church, the " chief 
corner-stone, elect, precious," is Jesus Christ. Let it 
be remembered to-day, that this Theological Seminary 
has always held this only foundation, Jesus Christ in 
his prophetic, priestly and kingly offices. The doctrine 
of the Holy Spirit also, the necessity of his work for the 
renovation of the human heart and the building up of 
his Church, has been taught and preached by this Semi- 
nary from the beginning. Amidst the controversies in 
which it has borne a part, its professors have taught and 
its students have preached this ' ' faith once delivered to 
the saints," the faith of the Father, and the Son, and the 
Holy Ghost. Maintaining evangelical doctrine, it has 
stood for liberality but not for indifference. For this 
testimony we appeal to the instructions given here, and 



46 Address of Ren. Professor Daggett. 

to the ministries of those who have been here educated, 
and the fact is commended to the consideration of other 
communions besides our own, who hold with us the 
same essential Christianity, " the common salvation." 

Let me add, that in the opening of these services I 
was cheered by the hymn, " I love thy kingdom, Lord," 
and the more because I remember that many years 
ago, ministering in the old sanctuary on Greenfield Hill, 
where the author, Dr. Dwight, had been pastor more 
than a generation before, amidst the traditions that for 
me hallowed the then dilapidated house, I could not 
but give out that same hymn, thinking of the divine 
kingdom, which he loved, as more enduring than the 
life or labors of that most eminent of our literary and 
theological teachers, and as enduring even forever. It 
is in the interests of this kingdom that we meet and act 
to-day. Let us with the more courage go forth to the 
laying of this corner-stone, and faithfully address our- 
selves to all the activities of our holy calling, in the 
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost. 

The lateness of the hour (it being after five o'clock) 
made it necessary to deviate from the programme. It 
was therefore announced that Prof. Thacher had been 
expected to speak for the Academical Department, and 
Prof. Lyman for the Scientific ; but inasmuch as they 
were our own men, with whom we might take such liber 
ties, they would be excused, though very reluctantly, 
from speaking. The Rev. Dr. Cummings, President of 
the Wesleyan University, was present, and it had been 
hoped that his eloquent voice, speaking for ministers 
and churches, not Congregational, yet in communion 
with us, would conclude this pleasant interchange of 
congratulations. But it was felt that he would forgive 
the error of assigning to him the place of honor from 
which he had been crowded, and would count it more 
courteous not to call him out than to lay upon him the 
necessity of refusing to speak, or speaking under the 
embarrassment of having no time. 



Laying of tlie Corner-Stone. 47 

Professor D wight then announced tlie order of the 
procession, which was formed under the direction of 
Professors Hoppin and Fisher, aided by Prof. Northrop, 
of the Academical Department, and moved to the site of 
the Divinity Hall in the following order : the students of 
the several Departments of Yale College, the President 
and Fellows, together with benefactors of the Seminary, 
the members of the University Faculty, the alumni of the 
Divinity School and other ministers of the Gospel, and 
the citizens of New Haven. 

Upon arriving at the site of the building, President 
Woolsey read the following paper, as containing the 
historical record about to be inclosed in the corner-stone : 

" This day, September 22d, in the year of our Lord 1869, 
Ulysses S. Grant being President of the United States, 
Marshall Jewell, Governor of the State of Connecticut, 
and William Fitch, Mayor of the city of New Haven, the 
corner-stone of this building — erected for the use of the 
Theological Department of Yale College — is laid by 
Theodore D. Woolsey, President of the College. This 
edifice is constructed under the superintendence of 
Richard M. Hunt, architect, by Atwater Treat, carpenter 
and joiner, and Messrs. Stephen P. Perkins and Philo 
Chatfield, masons. 

The Faculty and Instructors of the Theological De- 
partment at this date are : Theodore D. Woolsey, 
President ; Leonard Bacon, Noah Porter, George E. Day, 
James M. Hoppin, George P. Fisher, and Timothy 
D wight." 

With this were also placed in the stone a copy of the 
last Triennial Catalogue of Yale College ; the last General 
Catalogue of the Theological Department ; the last Annual 
Catalogue of the College ; a late number of each of the 
following periodicals, the New Englander, Theological 
Eclectic, Journal of Science, and Journal of the American 
Oriental Society ; copies of the newspapers published 
in New Haven ; a copy of the minutes of the General 
Association of Connecticut last published ; a copy of the 



48 Laying of the Corner-Stone. 

last Directory of the .city of New Haven, and a copy of 
the Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Con- 
necticut, published by W. L. Kingsley. 

Prayer was then offered by President Woolsey, after 
which he performed the ceremony of adjusting the 
corner-stone, and closed with the words, "I lay this 
corner-stone for the honor of Christ and the good of his 
Church," and the apostolic benediction. 



With the (Respects of 

the Theological Faculty. 



ADDRESSES 



AT THE 



Laying of the Corner Stone 



OF THE 



DIVINITY HALL 



OF THE 



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September 22nd, i86g. 



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NEW HAVEN: 

Printed by GuDDARD <fc OLMSTED, 131 Union St. 
1869. 



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FA.CTJIL.T-ST OF I3STSTPlXJCTI03Sr. 

Rev. THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, President. 

Rkv. LEONARD BACON, Revealed Theology. 

Rev. NOAH PORTER, Mental and Moral Philosophy and Natural Theology. 

Rev. GEORGE E. DAY, Hebrew and Biblical Tlieology. 

Rkv. JAMES M. HOPITN, Homiletics and the Pastoral Charge. 

Rev. GEORGE P. FISHER, Church History. 

Rev. TIMOTHY DWIGHT, Sacred Literature and New Testament Greek. 



The next annual term will open on the 17th of September, 1870, and continue eight 
months, until the third Thursday of May, 1871. 

The commodious Divinity Hall, now building, will be ready for occupancy at the 
beginning of the term. Rooms will be assigned to new students in the order of their 
application. 

No Catalogue of the Seminary is published separately from the Annual Catalogue of 
Yale College, of which it constitutes a part. Those, therefore, who propose to enter upon 
a course of Theological study, are referred to that for information. The following points, 
however, may be briefly stated : 

1. Members of the Theological Department are thereby Members of the University, and 
as such have free access to its libraries and collections of science and art, are entitled to 
attend gratuitously the lectures of any cf the Professors in the College and in the Sheffield 
Scientific School, and on proving themselves to possess the requisite qualifications, receive 
from the Corporation the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, with the enrollment of their names 
in the Triennial Catalogue of tho University. Many of these lectures in the other Depart- 
ments, as well as the opportunities for wider culture in general, will be of special value to 
those preparing for the ministry. Those who intend to become Foreign Missionaries have 
the further privilege of attending gratuitously the lectures in the Medical Department. 

2. Students have only to make pecuniary provision for about eight months of study 
annually. In the remaining four months of vacation, from May to September, they have 
the opportunity to engage in Home Missionary or other labor, with remuneration for their 
services. 

3. The expenses for the annual session are $4 to $5 a week for board : $15 to $25 for 
fuel and lights ; $5 a year for care of room, or one half of these latter sums, if two persons 
occupy the same room. There is no charge for instruction, room rent, or use of library. 

4. Students, whose circumstances require pecuniary assistance, will receive $100 annu- 
ally from the funds of the Seminary, This is exclusive of aid to the amount of $100 from 
the American Education Society. These means of assistance cover all the expenses men- 
tioned above. 

5. After the close of the second year, in May, the students have frequent opportunities 
to receive remuneration from preaching in the neighboring churches. 

Letters of inquiry may be addressed to any of the Professors in the Theological Faculty, 
who will send a Catalogue on application. 








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